Joyce Hwang

Joyce Hwang, AIA, NCARB, is the Director of Ants of the Prairie,
an office of architectural practice and research that focuses on
confronting contemporary ecological conditions through creative
means.

Currently Hwang is developing a series of projects that
incorporate wildlife habitats into constructed environments,
including recent projects “Bat Tower” and “Bat
Cloud.” She is a recipient of the 2014 Architectural League
Emerging Voices Award, the 2013 New York Foundation for the Arts
(NYFA) Fellowship, and has received grants from the New York State
Council on the Arts (NYSCA), Awesome Without Borders, the Baldy
Center for Law and Social Policy. She was awarded a residency at
the MacDowell Colony, where she was selected as a National
Endowment for the Arts Fellow. Her architectural projects and
writing have been featured in international and national
publications including Good, Praxis, Azure
Magazine, Architect Magazine, Green Building and Design,
AV Proyectos, Bracket, MONU, Volume
Magazine, and Next Nature among others. She is a
co-organizer of the Hive City Habitat Design Competition and
the 2012 Martell Symposium - Beyond Patronage: Reconsidering
Models of Practice.

Hwang is a registered architect in New York State. She has
practiced professionally with offices in New York, Philadelphia,
San Francisco, and Barcelona, and has worked with the office of
Carlos Ferrater in an invited competition for the new International
Terminal at the Barcelona Airport. Hwang received a
post-professional Master of Architecture degree from Princeton
University and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell
University, where she received the Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial
Bronze Medal.